Билли Уайлдер цитаты

„Если хочешь сказать людям правду, будь остроумен, иначе они убьют тебя.“

—  Билли Уайлдер

„Публика никогда не ошибается. Каждый зритель в отдельности может быть кретином, но тысяча кретинов, собравшихся вместе в темноте, — гениальный критик.“

—  Билли Уайлдер

„Многие, кто любились всю жизнь, могут узнать о любви меньше, чем ребенок, потерявший собаку …“

—  Билли Уайлдер

„You’re only as good as the best thing you’ve ever done.“

—  Billy Wilder

„Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.“

—  Billy Wilder

David Ben-Gurion, as quoted in Israel : Years of Crisis Years of Hope (1973) by Roman Frister, p. 45
Misattributed

„You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.“

—  Billy Wilder

„A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead.“

—  Billy Wilder

As quoted in Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973) by Warren Susman, p. 180
Контексте: A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.

„What critics call dirty in our movies, they call lusty in foreign films.“

—  Billy Wilder

„I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore.“

—  Billy Wilder

As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 206
Контексте: I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.

„He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.“

—  Billy Wilder

„Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.“

—  Billy Wilder

„The Austrians have completed the feat of turning Beethoven into an Austrian, and Hitler into a German.“

—  Billy Wilder

Die Österreicher haben das Kunststück fertiggebracht, aus Beethoven einen Österreicher und aus Hitler einen Deutschen zu machen.
As quoted in DER SPIEGEL (16 May 1994) http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-9281967.html?name=Sp%26auml%3Bte+Heimkehr)

„Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.“

—  Billy Wilder

As quoted in The New Hollywood : American Movies in the '70s (1975) by Axel Madsen

„An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.“

—  Billy Wilder

As quoted in The Bright Side of Billy Wilder, Primarily (1970) by Tom Wood, p. 20

„I just made pictures I would've liked to see.“

—  Billy Wilder

As quoted in "Billy Wilder" at The Indian Prairie Public Library http://www.indianprairie.lib.il.us/images/stories/Movies_Music_More/wilder1.pdf

„Of course, there must be subtleties. Just make sure you make them obvious.“

—  Billy Wilder

„I’ve met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you’re twenty minutes!“

—  Billy Wilder

„I’d worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.“

—  Billy Wilder

„If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.“

—  Billy Wilder